Nanette Fabray

Nanette Fabray

Birthday: 1920-10-27

Place of Birth: San Diego, California, USA

Biography: Nanette Fabray (born Ruby Bernadette Nanette Theresa Fabares; October 27, 1920 – February 22, 2018) was an American actress, singer, and dancer. She began her career performing in vaudeville as a child and became a musical-theatre actress during the 1940s and 1950s, acclaimed for her role in High Button Shoes (1947) and winning a Tony Award in 1949 for her performance in Love Life.

Movies

The Band Wagon
The Band Wagon

A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star's comeback vehicle into an artsy flop....

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The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be Ki...

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Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about Ame...

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The Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine

The story of President Monroe's response to attempts by Spain to interfere in South America....

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Harper Valley P.T.A.
Harper Valley P.T.A.

Stella Johnson is a single mother living in the town of Harper Valley. Most of the townsfolk, partic...

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The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County

A simple-minded blacksmith named Charley, well loved by the townsfolk, saves for a year to send off ...

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Alice Through the Looking Glass
Alice Through the Looking Glass

Alice returns to Wonderland through the looking glass in this TV musical....

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Amy
Amy

A woman leaves her husband after the death of her child to teach deaf children how to speak. Her own...

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The Sid Caesar Collection: The Magic of Live TV
The Sid Caesar Collection: The Magic of Live TV

One of the greatest comedians of early television, Sid Caesar hasn't had his work shown in perennial...

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A Child Is Born
A Child Is Born

A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward....

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Magic Carpet
Magic Carpet

A young student living in Rome gets a job as a tour guide and falls in love with a young stowaway wh...

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The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers
The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers

A TV movie with intertwining music numbers and sketches....

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The Man in the Santa Claus Suit
The Man in the Santa Claus Suit

The mysterious owner of a costume shop rents a Santa Claus suit to three very different men: a math ...

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The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli

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Get Aboard! 'The Band Wagon'
Get Aboard! 'The Band Wagon'

Documentary on the 1953 musical "The Band Wagon."...

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Fame Is the Name of the Game
Fame Is the Name of the Game

A brash, big-time investigative reporter, looking into the death of a call girl, uncovers her diary ...

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Teresa's Tattoo
Teresa's Tattoo

Mathematician Teresa just wanted to study during the College spring break. But her friends, who want...

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Night of 100 Stars II
Night of 100 Stars II

This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a...

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The Happy Ending
The Happy Ending

When Fred asked for Mary's hand in marriage, she thought she had the happy ending she only read abou...

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Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration
Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration

Not only did Mary Tyler Moore “turn the world on with her smile,” as her show’s theme song declared,...

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That's Entertainment! III
That's Entertainment! III

Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929...

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Happy Anniversary and Goodbye
Happy Anniversary and Goodbye

As her 25th anniversary approaches, Norma Michaels realizes that her marriage to her dentist husband...

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That's Entertainment, Part II
That's Entertainment, Part II

Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time includi...

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The Sid Caesar Collection:  Creating the Comedy
The Sid Caesar Collection: Creating the Comedy

The Big Daddy of televised comedy sketches, Sid Caesar had millions of Americans holding their sides...

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The Sid Caesar Collection:  Inside the Writer's Room
The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writer's Room

The Big Daddy of televised comedy sketches, Sid Caesar had millions of Americans holding their sides...

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George M!
George M!

Based on the semi-hit Broadway musical of 1968 and starring original stage star Joel Grey, this TV v...

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Personal Exemptions
Personal Exemptions

A dedicated IRS investigator pursues her career at the expense of her very disfunctional family. Nan...

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In the Beginning: The Caesar Years
In the Beginning: The Caesar Years

New interviews with Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner, footage from the reunion of Caesar's Writers (1996),...

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Elizabeth & Essex: Battle Royale
Elizabeth & Essex: Battle Royale

Short documentary about the making of The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex....

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The Couple Takes a Wife
The Couple Takes a Wife

Complications ensue when an overworked couple decides to hire a "wife" — someone who can run the hou...

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The Subterraneans
The Subterraneans

A disillusioned writer explores the subterranean depths of San Francisco's North Beach district....

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But I Don't Want to Get Married!
But I Don't Want to Get Married!

An accountant is widowed after 18 years of marriage. He is dumbfounded to have a herd of marriage-mi...

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Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age explores the world of Broadway from 1959 through the early 1980s as ...

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Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression

A two-hour in-depth exploration into the Hollywood musicals of the 1930s....

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Animal Catchers
Animal Catchers

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The Family Nobody Wanted
The Family Nobody Wanted

A true story, it follows a pastor and his wife through forties beginning with one biological child, ...

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